We have a consistent framework of levels across our teams, which begins at the first roles in your career and reaches all the way to C-Suite. These might not correspond with your title in your team. These levels are internal so we can consistently refer to where every team member sits across the whole of Whereby.

💡 You may want to use a slightly different title on your LinkedIn or business card, which we don't mind. Feel free to chat to your line manager first if you aren't sure what is appropriate.

The risk of working with levels is adopting an overly strict or bureaucratic stance, seeing our team members not as people, but as resources within a certain band of experience. It is important that we do not let levels define you or your career. Instead, we aim to use these levels as scaffolding which helps everyone in our team understand how our company works.

<aside> ☝️ Disclaimer: No one in our team fits perfectly into one 'box' and the descriptions below may not 100% reflect the way you feel about your role or performance. No framework, review structure, or progression plan is perfect. For this reason we welcome feedback and questions so we can improve. We hope you can understand and interrogate the intentions behind these ratings and descriptions as trying to provide a fair and consistent way to assess our team and help each other do the best work of our careers here at Whereby.

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At a glance

Individual Contributor Track

Manager Track

Level Overviews and Expectations

Individual Contributor Job Levels

Manager Job Levels

Things to note

The framework above is intended to represent a lifetime’s worth of progression. While time taken to progress will vary between individuals, you shouldn’t expect to jump through all the levels in a few years. As seniority increases, time to move up levels will also increase e.g. IC1 to IC2 may only take 1 year, IC2 to IC3 may take longer etc. Again, this will vary from person to person so should only be taken as a guide.

Levels are cumulative so each subsequent level encompasses those preceding it.

It is possible for a manager to manage an IC who is on a higher level of the framework to them. Just because someone on the team is at a certain level, does not mean they need to manage the people in their department who are on lower ones.